About the evaluation
Why are we evaluating the Strategy?
Given advances in knowledge, the diversity of the injury prevention sector and to ensure we are achieving the best possible injury prevention results, it is appropriate to take stock of progress and look for future potential improvements.
The evaluation provides an opportunity for many people to contribute to the future direction of injury prevention in New Zealand.
What is the focus of the evaluation?
- progress made to date and the key success factors that have helped achieve this progress
- barriers to achieving injury reduction
- funding levels and cost-effectiveness of government investment in injury prevention and options to improve or rationalise resources
- injury trends as evidenced by the NZIPS serious injury outcome indicators and the safety culture survey, to identify emerging injury issues, including the benefits of addressing issues such as alcohol, child injuries, sports and recreation as individual priority areas or linking them more effectively
- analysis of areas that would benefit from increased focus, i.e. where most gains in injury reduction can be achieved
- identification of potential new approaches, and change paradigms, to drive new structures and activities, for example including the use of financial incentives
- identify changes to simplify and streamline governance structure to improve coordination of effort across government, non-government and community.
Read the Terms of Reference
What is the process?
The NZIPS Secretariat is undertaking the evaluation project and has developed a comprehensive project plan . To ensure the evaluation captures a wide range of opinions and is informed by robust analysis the following activities are happening:
Stocktake of activities: The NZIPS Secretariat will carry out a records review to describe the implementation plan activities that have been undertaken since 2004.
Consultation, which will include:
- In-depth interviews of key stakeholders, conducted by an independent agency.
- Regional meetings for local injury prevention practitioners and agencies, facilitated by the NZIPS Secretariat. For dates and locations refer to Consultation and timelines.
- An invitation to individuals, organisations and associations to provide a written submission. Refer to Have your say for a form you can use to make a submission.
The material gathered from consultation will provide the basis of the qualitative analysis part of the evaluation.
Review of governance and structures: An external agency will conduct an examination of the governance and structural arrangements for the Strategy and its associated injury priority areas.
Quantitative analysis: An analysis of injury trends will be undertaken by the Injury Prevention Research Unit, Dunedin.
Analysis of government expenditure on injury prevention: A separate but related project is underway to gather and analyse information on government spending on injury prevention, focussing on the six priority areas of the Strategy. The findings of this work will be fed into the evaluation.
Meetings of the NZIPS governance groups will be kept informed regarding progress, and invited to comment, e.g. on the initial findings.
The Injury Prevention Ministerial Committee will receive the initial findings of the evaluation in November 2009.
It is expected that in March 2010 the final report and recommendations will be provided to the Associate Minister for ACC.
The aim is to have the report finalised in time to inform decisions on future directions in 2010/11 and future years.
Dissemination of the evaluation report
The report of the evaluation will be made available on the NZIPS website.
Stakeholders across the sector will be encouraged to use the evaluation report for planning future activities.
